- 18 Mar, 2021
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policy analysis model
Briefly explain the policy and how it is relevant to your client’s area of concern/problem situation.
Use a policy analysis model to analyze the effectiveness of the policy for the general client group
you have chosen and then your client specifically. Include carefully referenced literature sources
including books; peer-reviewed journal articles; research studies; government documents, reports
and data; and web sites. While this is not expected in the space available to be a full policy
analysis, you should draw on one of the policy analysis models with which you are familiar, and
reference the model fully.
Based on your analysis, what would you advocate in terms of policy review, application,
formulation, or revision?
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● Engagement (10 points)
2-3 pages
Describe how you did engage the client in the assessment and intervention. What specific skills
did you use to engage the client?
1. Assessment (15 points)
3-4 pages
Describe your efforts to collect, organize and interpret information about the client. What are the client’s
strengths and limitations?
Your assessment should include a discussion of relevant issues of age, class, color, disability, ethnicity,
family structure, gender, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, stigma, and/or sexual
orientation as applicable to your client. Be sure that your discussion of diversity links well with the client
and or client situation.
Discuss how the issues of social and economic justice and human and civil rights may relate to this specific
practice situation.
2. Intervention (15 points)
3-4 pages
Present a mutually developed and agreed upon intervention strategy with specific goals and
objectives. Provide a rationale for your selection.
Describe your intervention from beginning to end, including termination. How did you help the
client prevent or resolve problems? How did you negotiate mediate and advocate for your client.
Select and discuss at least 3 practice skills (micro/macro) used in your intervention with the
client.
Write a critique of your work with the client. What did you do well in terms of the intervention?
What could have been done to improve the outcomes with the client? How was the intervention
empowering? How may it have been discriminatory or oppressive?
Provide a discussion of whether the intervention was developed from a theoretical practice model.
If so, which practice theory? If not, what practice theory could have been used to facilitate better
outcomes? Regardless, analyze and provide evidence-based knowledge about the theory-based
intervention (used or proposed) and its effectiveness.
3. Evaluation (15 points)
3-4 pages
Select one of the methods used to evaluate change and improvement with clients/client systems
(single subject, pretest/posttest or other). Provide a rationale for the evaluation method you
selected. Describe the method and how you would facilitate using that method to collect data to
assess change and improvement.
4. Conclusion (10 points)
2-3 pages
Critically review your practice situation and intervention as an external observer and comment on the
following:
Identify and describe one or more potential ethical and values issues related to this practice situation. Be sure
to reference the NASW Code of Ethics in your discussion.